Pierre Renoir

French actor (1885–1952)

For the Canadian painter, see Pierre Roland Renoir.

Pierre Renoir

Renoir in 1943

Born| (1885-03-21)March 21, 1885

Paris, France

Died| March 11, 1952(1952-03-11) (aged 66)

Paris, France

Occupation| Actor
Years active| 1907-1952
Spouse|

Véra Sergine

(m. 1914; div. 1925)​

Children| Claude Renoir
Parent(s)| Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Aline Charigot
Relatives| Jean Renoir (brother)
Sophie Renoir (granddaughter)

Pierre Renoir (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʁənwaʁ]; March 21, 1885 – March 11, 1952) was a French stage and film actor. He was the son of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and elder brother of the film director Jean Renoir. He is also noted for being the first actor to play Georges Simenon's character Inspector Jules Maigret in Night at the Crossroads, directed by his brother.

## Life and career

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Renoir in a painting by his father Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1895-96)

Pierre Renoir was born on March 21, 1885, in Paris, at 18 rue Houdon, about a hundred meters from place Pigalle, to painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Aline Charigot.[1] He was married to actress Véra Sergine from 1914 to 1925.

For his best remembered role, as Jėricho the ragman in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis, 1945), he was cast at short notice to replace the collaborator Robert Le Vigan; Jėricho's scenes had to be reshot after Le Vigan fled. Renoir was briefly the director of the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris, taking over after the death of Louis Jouvet in 1951. Pierre Renoir's son was the cinematographer Claude Renoir (1913–93)[2]—not to be confused with Pierre's brother Claude Renoir, known as 'Coco' (1901–69).[3]

## Selected filmography

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Pierre Renoir in the American trailer for Children of Paradise (1945)

* La Digue (1911, Short) - Pierre Wallen
* Les deux gosses (1916) - Le lieutenant Jacques d'Alboise
* Marion Delorme (1918) - Le roi Louis XIII
* The Whirlpool of Fate (1925) - Farmer
* Morgane, the Enchantress (1928)
* Night at the Crossroads (1932) - Le commissaire Maigret
* The Agony of the Eagles (1933) - Montander
* Madame Bovary (1934) - Charles Bovary
* La Route impériale (1935) - Maj. Hudson
* Tovaritch (1935) - Gorotchenko
* La Bandera (1935) - Le capitaine Weller
* Veille d'armes (1935) - Le commandant Brambourg
* Under Western Eyes (1936) - Un Policier
* Wolves Between Them (1936) - Gottfried Welter
* When Midnight Strikes (1936) - Jean Verdier
* De Man Zonder Hart (1937) - Sourdier
* Widow's Island (1937) - Ralph Berry
* Boissière (1937) - Le général baron von Hubner
* The Citadel of Silence (1937) - Le colonel-comte Stepan Iporievitch
* Mollenard (1938) - Bonnerot
* La Marseillaise (1938) - Le Roi de France Louis XVI
* Légions d'honneur (1938) - L'avocat Dumas
* White Nights in Saint Petersburg (1938) - Ivan Borowsky
* The Lafarge Case (1938) - Charles Lafarge
* The Patriot (1938) - Le comte de Pahlen
* Satan's Paradise (1938) - Paraíso de Satã (1938) - Aristophélès
* La Piste du sud (1938) - Stolberg
* La Maison du Maltais (1938) - L'archéologue André Chervin
* The Rebel (1938) - Capitaine Yorritz
* Serge Panine (1939) - Cayrol
* Coral Reefs (1939) - Abboy
* Nord-Atlantique (1939) - Le capitaine Jeff Cooper
* Personal Column (1939) - Brémontière
* Nadia la femme traquée (1940) - Daminoff
* Those of the Sky (1941) - Pierron
* L'embuscade (1941) - Jean Guéret
* The Pavilion Burns (1941) - Jourdinsse
* Foolish Husbands (1941) - Jules Donaldo
* Macao, l'enfer du jeu (1942) - Werner von Krall (1942 version only)
* The Law of Spring (1942) - Frédéric Villaret
* The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock (1942) - François Marchal
* The Trump Card (1942) - Rudy Score
* L'appel du bled (1942) - Michaud
* The Wolf of the Malveneurs (1943) - Reginald de Malveneur
* Madame et le mort (1943) - Charles de Bruine
* Tornavara (1943) - Sigurd Framrus
* Traveling Light (1944) - Georges Renaud
* Les Enfants du paradis (1945) - Jéricho
* Father Goriot (1945) - Vautrin
* St. Val's Mystery (1945) - Le docteur Dartignac
* Marie la Misère (1945) - Pierre Desormes
* Resistance (1945) - Le colonel
* Special Mission (1946) - Landberg alias Moravetz - le chef du réseau d'espionnage alleman
* The Captain (1946) - Le duc d'Angoulême
* Coincidences (1947) - Monsieur Bardolas
* Les trafiquants de la mer (1947) - Le prince Boris Mentischev
* Secret Cargo (1947) - Le préfet de police
* The Eleven O'Clock Woman (1948) - Le docteur Gérard Pescara
* La grande volière (1948) - Vallette
* Scandal on the Champs-Élysées (1949) - Dominique Airelle
* The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1949) - Professeur Stangerson
* The Farm of Seven Sins (1949) - Le procureur Edmond de Chancey
* The Ferret (1950) - Le docteur Darvel-Juste
* Death Threat (1950) - Bernier
* Dr. Knock (1951) - Le pharmacien Mousquet
* Judgement of God (1952) - Le duc Ernest de Bavière (final film role)

## References

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1. ^ Pharisien, Bernard (November 2003). Pierre Renoir (in French). Bar-sur-Aube: Némont. ISBN 978-2-913163-10-2. OCLC 70158287. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
2. ^ Eric Pace "Claude Renoir, 79, A Cinematographer With a Painter's Eye", New York Times, 13 September 1993
3. ^ "Renoir mss., ca. 1913-1968", Indiana University Online Archives

## External links

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Paintings|

* List of paintings
* Portrait of William Sisley (1864)
* Mother Anthony's Tavern (1866)
* Diana (1867)
* Lise with a Parasol (1867)
* Frédéric Bazille at his Easel (1867)
* A Couple (Les Fiancés) (1868)
* In Summer (1868)
* Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne (1868)
* Léonard Renoir, The Artist's Father (1869)
* La Grenouillère (1869)
* A Nymph by a Stream (1869-70)
* L'Algérienne (1870)
* La Promenade (1870)
* Bather with a Griffon Dog (1870)
* Woman with Parakeet (1871)
* The Harem (1872)
* Le Pont-Neuf (1872)
* The Gust of Wind (1872)
* Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil (1873)
* La Parisienne (1874)
* La Loge (1874)
* The Grand Boulevards (1875)
* Portrait of the Painter Claude Monet (1875)
* In the Garden - Under the Arbour at the Moulin de la Galette (1875)
* Woman with a Cat (1875)
* Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876)
* Nude woman sitting on a couch (Anna) (1876)
* The Swing (1876)
* A Girl with a Watering Can (1876)
* Mother and Children (1876)
* At the Theatre (1876–1877)
* Eugène Murer (1877)
* The Day Dream (1877)
* The Cup of Chocolate (1878)
* Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children (1878)
* Portrait of Jeanne Samary (1878)
* Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (1879)
* Paysage Bords de Seine (1879)
* Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers (La Petite Irène) (1880)
* Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881)
* Pink and Blue (1881)
* Two Sisters (On the Terrace) (1881)
* Young Women in Black (1880–1882)
* Blonde Bather (1881 and 1882)
* The Umbrellas (1880–81, 1885–86)
* By the Seashore (1883)
* Dance at Bougival (1883)
* Dance in the City (1883)
* Dance in the Country (1883)
* Les Grandes Baigneuses (1884–1887)
* Nature morte: fleurs (1885)
* The Braid (1886–1887)
* Young Woman with a Blue Ribbon (1888)
* Girls at the Piano (1892)
* Yvonne and Christine Lerolle at the Piano (1897)
* Woman Playing a Guitar (1897)
* Gabrielle with Open Blouse (1907)
* Nude (1910)
* After the Bath (1910)
* The Coast at Cagnes, Sea, Mountains (c. 1910)
* Portrait of Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf (1911)
* The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes (c. 1908–1914)
* Blond Girl with a Rose (1915–1917)
* Portrait of Adèle Besson (1918)
* The Bathers (1918–19)

Sculptures|

* Venus Victorious (c. 1914)

Portrayals|

* A Studio at Les Batignolles (1870 painting)
* Bazille's Studio (1870 painting)
* The Impressionists (2006 series)
* Renoir (2012 film)

Family|

* Aline Charigot (wife)
* Lucienne Bisson (daughter)
* Pierre Renoir (son)
* Jean Renoir (son)
* Claude Renoir (son)
* Claude Renoir (grandson)
* Alain Renoir (grandson)
* Paul Renoir (grandson)
* Pierre Roland Renoir (great-grandson)
* Sophie Renoir (great-granddaughter)
* Jean-Emmanuel Renoir (great-grandson)

Related|

* Musée de Montmartre, home and studio
* Renoir, My Father
* Gabrielle Renard (nanny, later model)
* Lise Tréhot
* Marguerite Legrand
* Catherine Hessling
* Richard Guino
* Jeanne Samary
* Suzanne Valadon
* Henriette Henriot
* Jane Henriot (child model)
* Raoul Rigault
* Jeanne Baudot (his only student)
* Maison Fournaise
* Pays des Impressionnistes
* Renoir (crater)

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* Bibliography
* Filmography

Films directed|

* The Whirlpool of Fate (1925)
* Nana (1926)
* Charleston Parade (1927)
* Marquitta (1927)
* The Little Match Girl (1928)
* Le Bled (1929)
* On purge bébé (1931)
* La Chienne (1931)
* Night at the Crossroads (1932)
* Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
* Chotard and Company (1933)
* Madame Bovary (1934)
* Toni (1935)
* Life Belongs to Us (1936)
* The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
* The Lower Depths (1936)
* La Grande Illusion (1937)
* La Marseillaise (1938)
* La Bête Humaine (1938)
* The Rules of the Game (1939)
* Swamp Water (1941)
* This Land Is Mine (1943)
* The Southerner (1945)
* The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
* "Partie de campagne" (1946)
* The Woman on the Beach (1947)
* The River (1951)
* The Golden Coach (1952)
* French Cancan (1955)
* Elena and Her Men (1956)
* The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (1959)
* Picnic on the Grass (1959)
* The Elusive Corporal (1962)
* The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970)

Books written|

* Renoir, My Father (1962)
* The Notebooks of Captain Georges (1966)
* My Life and My Films (1974)

Related|

* Louis Lumière / conversation avec Langlois et Renoir
* Catherine Hessling (wife)
* Alain Renoir (son)
* Pierre-Auguste Renoir (father)
* Aline Charigot Renoir (mother)
* Pierre Renoir (brother)
* Gabrielle Renard
* Marguerite Renoir

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